Good morning to #TheThread ☕️. Its 55 and fireside for th...
Good morning to #TheThread ☕️. Its 55 and fireside for this mornings post🔥. Cant get enough if this spring weather ! The last few days have been awesome! We only had a few pics yesterday, probably because of my slacking🤷♂️😂 and forgetting to add tags before i left yesterday morning. Sorry if anyone wasnt able to find it on their own. Pic 2 is from @Shells_Garden with a beautiful white fusion calathea🤩! Pic 3 is a taste of spring blooms from @Blueberrypie hummingbird haven🌸🌻. Number 4 is a shot of @TheOddAsity new plant shelves all painted and lights hung, and a few plants alreadyfinding their new home! And bringing up the rear with #5 is a beauty of a snake plant😍 from @MariansOasis ! Love the silver ones myself ! #HappyPlants #PlantsMakePeopleHappy #PlantAddict #GregPlantShop #GregGang #WhatTheSuccWednesday #VenusFlyTrap #Monstera hope everyones humpday is easy🙌!
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@Ms.Persnickety @OrangeGrass @CourtlyKingfern @WelsomeRhodotus @RealSimpleMama @YammieOf3 @HisLobster @MusicalRedmint @stephonicle @Hoyaobsessed @SuperbRaspfern @princesspitstop @JenniferNoel @SweetAzurebluet @CutePolypremum @mtplantlady @nellz4estfairyz @Araceae @emmiev123 @UltraKoreanfir @elisenavidad @BrawnyMachofern and the tags 👆hope i got everyone have a great day !
@TheConservator love that fire pit!🙌🏻♥️ awesome. We are under a frost warning at the present time. @Shells_Garden beautiful plant and the container. 💚 I have killed two calathea’s so I just admire from afar.. @Blueberrypie it’s a beautiful spring plant to see out.. blue being my favorite color. And @TheOddAsity !! I am loving those shelves with the lights.. so happy for your project!! And the 🐍 plants are new to my oasis and I have loved them so far. A breeze for care..
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Few plants in my oasis! Everyone have a great “hump” day.. 🫠
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Few plants in my oasis! Everyone have a great “hump” day.. 🫠
Good morning everyone @ #thethread well it's 8:30 a.m. here and it's already 72° 🫤 another Succulent and Orchid are supposed to be here Friday and it's supposed to be 101° 😲
This is how the twins look this morning, so the hope is there that they will open fully👍 No plant chores today so I'm just going to plan where to put everyone (probably even combine some of my succulents)
Have a great Wednesday everybody! 🫶
This is how the twins look this morning, so the hope is there that they will open fully👍 No plant chores today so I'm just going to plan where to put everyone (probably even combine some of my succulents)
Have a great Wednesday everybody! 🫶
Good morning everyone!! @TheConservator that fire 😍
@CourtlyKingfern snake plants are definitely my easiest plants! I love yours.
@RealSimpleMama hello!! How many days of school are left? 😬
@BrawnyMachofern I hope your plants arrive in fine condition!!
@CourtlyKingfern snake plants are definitely my easiest plants! I love yours.
@RealSimpleMama hello!! How many days of school are left? 😬
@BrawnyMachofern I hope your plants arrive in fine condition!!
I’m tired of my current projects. So I checked out yesterday and ordered 9 Hoyas. It felt good in the moment, but I think I might be kicking myself later! @Blueberrypie posted her variegated Kerrii yesterday so I went and found one 😂.
Posting new growth to the #TheThread !! Pic one is my baby phal putting off 3 new spikes. Pic 2 is my phal blooming pic 3 is my violet about to bloom pic 4 is Hoya insularis putting off new leaves pic 5 is my caudata Sumatra putting off new leaves finally !!!! Enjoy friends.
@TheOddAsity ive been able to not buy since that pop up 2 weeks ago. Yeah i know its only 2 weeks!🙄 but thats along tine for me! And it shows my addiction is fading. Not even interested in more plants st this point lol
@TheConservator I bet that tent has opened a whole new world on propping!
@Hoyaobsessed the Sumatra to me looks so… rugged. I have one. It’s newer so no new leaves yet. But they look cool growing!! I love your orchids. I’m just getting into them. And I just bought African violets as well.
@Hoyaobsessed the Sumatra to me looks so… rugged. I have one. It’s newer so no new leaves yet. But they look cool growing!! I love your orchids. I’m just getting into them. And I just bought African violets as well.
@TheOddAsity im actually still not doing fresh props in there though. Im still doing those on my prop table. Moving em to the tent after they have roots .
@TheConservator I’m interested in how your distiller comes together! That’s gotta be something to look forward to.
@TheOddAsity it is! With a big but... lol! The price tag really puts a damper on getting to excited lol
@TheConservator but I’m pretty sure it will balance itself out. I use distilled water for only a handful of plants. Here, it’s $1.25/ gallon. You said you were buying 30/week? That’s $40/wk… $160/mo. Not to mention time, gas and energy to go get em. On pure finance alone it will pay for itself in 15 months. If you look at the time you save, landfill space and energy? Less than… (maybe you said you bought that many a month?)
@TheOddAsity So do I, I'm hoping they might come a little early🤞I also have African Violets and a couple Peperomias on the way 🙂
@TheOddAsity I'm getting a Luna and a Watermelon...I'm excited, I've never had them before. Of course I've never had African Violets before either so the excitement is doubled. My dad told me yesterday that I'm going to feel like I'm living in a Greenhouse because my camper is only 30 ft long 😂😂
@BrawnyMachofern ooooh, both of those are great! I have the emerald ripple which is same leaf shape but different color. I love the watermelon. I am keeping my eyes open for them locally. I might have to order it.
@BrawnyMachofern here some unsolicited advice, if you’d like it. No hard feelings if you don’t… peperomia love chunky well draining soil. They like air on their roots per se. But all the peperomia I buy, come in dense heavy peat based soil. And it’s super easy to overwater them in that stuff. So if you switch it out, and water them and have the water flow through, then let them drain, they love it. They also like light, for the most part. Only one or 2 of them like a north facing window… otherwise I have them in an east or west window or under a grow light. I have 9 different peperomia and all of them are in my chunky mix doing well. Except my dragon skin… 😂 I had a dental procedure at the beginning of January and water it 2 days in a row while on pain killers 🙄 but it is recovering.
@TheOddAsity thank you so much for the advice 🫶 the medium that I have on hand is Orchid mix, Succulent mix, and now African Violet mix (pic for reference) which one would be better?
@TheConservator I’m loving that fire! Looks so cozy and that’s a nice dome. I bet it was perfect on a chilly morning!
@TheOddAsity no it was a week! And it was going to get worse cause things grow and my sarras are outside for summer. Thats was really the deciding factor. Ill need prob 6 gallons a day im betting just for those
@BrawnyMachofern do you also have perlite? I would probably mix 50-60% perlite with succulent mix. I don’t buy potting mix anymore because I can make more effective mix with things I can buy separately (and for cheaper). Not to say that’s what you have to do. I attached pics so you can see how chunky of a mix my peperomias are in so you can mix things together that you have. For reference I use 5 parts coco chips, 5 parts chunky perlite, 1 part coco coir and 1 part charcoal. And then I add fertilizer to my water. Aim for chunky and you will be good. If you want link for anything I am happy to share.
Okay… calling all the succulent people on #TheThread… is this a death bloom? It’s coming out of the middle of the plant. If@it is, what do I do? Do I need to cut out those little pups? Will the mother plant start dying?
Well darn I had a big message typed and lost it somehow. Anywho! @BrawnyMachofern I think if you combine your succulent and orchid mixes you might be able to get a decent chunky mix if you don’t have any perlite, but I as like @TheOddAsity use a bunch of individual ingredients to mix up most of my mediums, but I also have Fox farms and succulent mix from my local nursery, which I often use together with the various other ingredients (which ends up being stuff you acquire over time as you branch out into different plant types) or for plants wanting something more generic. Plus perlite is very versatile and cheap! :) also I’m so excited for you both to be branching out into new varieties of plants!! You picked great ones. Here’s my favorite, the miniature vining peperomia “pepperspot” and I have a few other miniatures that my husband also likes even though he doesn’t really care for the plants aside from his watermelon peperomia on his desk. I also have the normal sized version of the vining one called “Cupids Ivy” and a mini that looks like the watermelon one! Also of course I love African violets especially the miniature and micro mini ones because you can have so much variety in foliage and flowers and they don’t take up much space! I’m pretty sure you all have seen my violet collection.
@Blueberrypie I absolutely love your collection! I was thinking those two mixes as well 😁 and they both contain perlite so I think that's good 👍 I am super excited to get my African Violets and Peperomias (I'm just worried about them coming from Florida and I live in Arizona)
@BrawnyMachofern I live in Utah. I order from FL a lot. I have never had a problem with things coming from there. I do when they’re northeastern tho.
@TheOddAsity the one on the right does def look like a death bloom. … even if you cut it chances are mom will die too…. I can’t tell with the other two blooms the fact they are right smack in the middle worries me. Can you take the babies off yet? It is a beautiful specimen and in all honesty I think all the death blooms I have witnessed in the greenhouse I used to work at are so beautiful!! @TheConservator I got almost all of my cuttings out of the prop box and planted in their own pots… surprisingly the jewel orchid is a slow to root .. and I still have the two lipstick plants and the snow caps in the box. I put the imbracata with a bit of moss layed it on top of the chunky medium and secured it with wire and buried the two ends that had roots into the medium.. maybe it will be happy that way…. Love that one! I do have a Sumatra!! Right next to my west window and it pouted for a bit when I first got it but I see several places new leaves are growing … do you have one? If not I can chop it once it really takes off. The insularis has been the most delicate so far to grow..would do great in your tent … adding the charchol to my mix has been a game changer !!! Love the barrel of oriental lilies !!!! I am jealous… like really jealous. As a designer white orientals and Sumatra orientals are my fav so much I named my daughter after then lol….
@TheOddAsity the only place I’ve ever bought them was from the violet barn website. They have expensive winter shipping but it might have switched back to the more reasonable prices (still a bit pricey) but they have a nice description of them on the website along with several specimens for sale! https://violetbarn.com/microminiature-hybrids.html
@Hoyaobsessed i have 2 cuttings from that batch i ordered from thailand. All the rest died. But it was in the worst shape by the time i decided to chop it. That was it
@TheConservator well let mine take off and I can give you more. I also have crinkle 8 and obovata that is good to chop now
@Hoyaobsessed i really am on plant pause for the time being😂. I gotta get control of what i have going on already!
All along i had planned on this distiller going in the kitchen. But now after reading everything i think its goung to have to go to the basement now🙄😤. It pulls 11 amps and 1500 watts at max. So it prob needs a dedicated circuit or a 30 amp plug in. But not only that! I dont think i want that much heat being generated in my kitchen year round. Be ok in cold season but suck when ac is on or just window weather. And then we factor in the power cost with purchase price....🤷♂️ its just hard to say??? How much daily power it will actually consume.
If those lipsticks arent rooting yet id just put en in chunky mix. Thats how i rooted the 2 i did of the pagoda. I havent done the curly . @Hoyaobsessed
Just a little update, it looks like two of my pings have started showing little flower buds! And I can’t be sure and not even sure it’s possible but one might have two buds! Then, you’ve seen her before but I got a nice close up too of my Venus fly trap and her happy flowers! Last is a columbine I have been growing just bloomed! :)
Nice! One of my vft blooms just turned black one day🤷♂️. I still havent had a ping bloom either . @Blueberrypie
@Blueberrypie i think i was keeping my pings to close to the light until i got these new ones and read some more.
@TheConservator awe!! That is a bummer!! Maybe they need more humidity? Mine are on a pebble tray. I feel like that helps maybe? It does for some other flowers. This vft has actually popped out 3 big flowers this winter, but one before this one grew half as tall then stopped and the buds turned brown so I chopped it off. Thankfully this one flourished! It’s really pretty though because they’re kind of like see through and have clear stripes
@TheConservator mine live right in the middle of my mini African violets lol. So east facing window, with a grow light for 12 hours, the pebble tray and a fan
I think it was just shock from shipping. It had just started when i received it with those pings. Ut kept growing for 2 weeks though. Then just dead! @Blueberrypie but all my vft get atleast 75% humidity from my tent or climatarium now so that will help.
@TheOddAsity I'm new to succs, but it doesn't look like 100%in the center to me, so my orchid- focused brain says, nah , that should be alright, the crown is intact. No idea if that is the same for succs, though.
But maybe I can add comfort with a teeny bit of anecdotal input as well: my aloe had a really smack-down 100% in the middle central spike a few months ago. And not only did she pull through, she even decided to grow a pup - just in case, I guess - and is blooming again. From exactly the same possibly disastrous point of origin.
Since I'm crossing my fingers already for this one to pull through anyway, I'll include your stunningly beautiful echeveria into my well- wishes. And if that doesn't work, at least we will have the pups.
But maybe I can add comfort with a teeny bit of anecdotal input as well: my aloe had a really smack-down 100% in the middle central spike a few months ago. And not only did she pull through, she even decided to grow a pup - just in case, I guess - and is blooming again. From exactly the same possibly disastrous point of origin.
Since I'm crossing my fingers already for this one to pull through anyway, I'll include your stunningly beautiful echeveria into my well- wishes. And if that doesn't work, at least we will have the pups.
@MusicalRedmint I don’t know why it took your comment for me to Google this, as I hadn’t thought about it before now, but you are correct! No death bloom!! The previous Google search (as I was going to compare aloe and echeveria) stated blooms are a sign of health and maturity. So… go us! They’re happy and healthy!
@TheOddAsity Oooooh
Thanks for googling (which I could have done just as well 😅🤦♀️). But on here I've heard several people talk about terminal spikes with succs as well. Does that then only go for other types? And I mean, it would make sense that an emerging spike at the top could do a lot of damage to plants that b only have this center as a growth point. 🤔
For now I will just enjoy your googled comfort and enjoy my blooms, I guess. Enjoy yours. I'm still waiting for any echeveria or graptopetalum to bloom, so I'll just enjoy yours in the meantime. It looks divine
Thanks for googling (which I could have done just as well 😅🤦♀️). But on here I've heard several people talk about terminal spikes with succs as well. Does that then only go for other types? And I mean, it would make sense that an emerging spike at the top could do a lot of damage to plants that b only have this center as a growth point. 🤔
For now I will just enjoy your googled comfort and enjoy my blooms, I guess. Enjoy yours. I'm still waiting for any echeveria or graptopetalum to bloom, so I'll just enjoy yours in the meantime. It looks divine
@MusicalRedmint so now that you mention it, this particular echeveria had two blooms last year… and in my limited brain, deformed the plant, as it started growing in different directions as you can see from my photo. So now it will be interesting to see if these blooms cause alternate growth points because like you said it would damage the plant, from our perspective… but maybe that’s what they do all along to keep themselves replicating. Hmm, I never thought of that. (I love talking to you about things! It gets my brain going!)
@TheOddAsity Ooops. That reminds me of my graptoverum. I've bought it in bloom with a (I think) terminal spike. And the first new leaves after that were kind of odd and deformed. It recovered over time, but I was seriously confused what was going on. And it may have started on those lower new growths as well at that point. I recently repotted and beheaded it, so no pics, but those pups confused me as well because they didn't start low on the stem but in between the leaves without there being space, in a space where no leaves dropped beforehand. It seemed off as well. Maybe that was it 😀
but hey, what do I know. I'm even more novice in the succ game than in the hoya one, and for some reason, i do not even read up on them. They just do their thing, and I just assume they are correct and don't need me. They do get my best light, but apart from that, I only fuss over them with a veritable fraction of the attention I give my hoyas and orchids. Has worked out till now. 🤞
except for situations like this, I don't seem to think about them. So thanks for the nice words, I feel the same, obviously: seeing your post and Google search result piqued my interest enough to go on a mystery solving hunt with you "researching" my most neglected plants😀 I just love theorizing about things, as long as there is a way to check the theories in the end or come to some kind of satisfactory conclusion.
Still, I'm not in the mood for research/ reading up on them (though there surely are educated answers somewhere), but I'm down for lazily watching them over time, if you are game. 😀 It probably isn't our last terminal spike, so I'll keep my eyes peeled. 👀
but hey, what do I know. I'm even more novice in the succ game than in the hoya one, and for some reason, i do not even read up on them. They just do their thing, and I just assume they are correct and don't need me. They do get my best light, but apart from that, I only fuss over them with a veritable fraction of the attention I give my hoyas and orchids. Has worked out till now. 🤞
except for situations like this, I don't seem to think about them. So thanks for the nice words, I feel the same, obviously: seeing your post and Google search result piqued my interest enough to go on a mystery solving hunt with you "researching" my most neglected plants😀 I just love theorizing about things, as long as there is a way to check the theories in the end or come to some kind of satisfactory conclusion.
Still, I'm not in the mood for research/ reading up on them (though there surely are educated answers somewhere), but I'm down for lazily watching them over time, if you are game. 😀 It probably isn't our last terminal spike, so I'll keep my eyes peeled. 👀
@MusicalRedmint @TheOddAsity hey yall! Just wanted to chime in, first yay for April! So glad your beautiful plant isn’t dying:) I just wanted to show you what my aloe is doing these days… she has this big beautiful flower but one day it just flopped in half basically and so I went to stake it and discovered she had popped out a little pup overnight right where it was folding over! I was not expecting this at all! Have only had like… side pups I guess?
@Blueberrypie 😂 that’s crazy! This is where you wonder if these ar ethe problem children or prodigy children plants 😏🤷🏼♀️
Is it just me or there’s no thread yet today? Where’s ole @TheConservator ? Hopefully you’re doing alright sir.
@TheOddAsity yeah! It totally threw me off and reminded me more of how a spider plant kinda throws its babies. Now that flower is already starting to wilt , but it’s not very old. Maybe the baby is sucking some of its life force or something. I’m hoping it will root out while still hanging onto mom!
@Blueberrypie That looks wild 😀